Spark GF Failed Submissions
by Mark Parnell · Forms
Track failed form submissions and get notified when they reach a customisable threshold. Requires Gravity Forms.
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Health
A 85/100
Few reviews
Active installs
70+
≈73 estimated
Momentum
+17%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: Add “failed” and “submissions” to your wp.org tags. You rank #6 and #20 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
85 health vs 65 average across 2,517 Forms plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.7%
of downloads still active
At least 70 of 9.4K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Forms plugin keeps 1.2%, across 1,671 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Forms plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 3 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 89 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
4.0★ over 1 review, weighted for review count to 4.1★ and held back under 25 reviews
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
39
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.2
Velocity
places per keyword, 23d
20%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 23d
-0.2
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| spark | #3 | #12 | 0 |
| failed | #6 | #23 | down 1 |
| gf validation | #5 | #12 | 0 |
| submissions | #20 | #23 | down 3 |
| failed submissions your tag | Not checked yet | ||
| gravity forms your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| logging your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| validation your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
10 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 4 listed. 6 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Add “failed” and “submissions” to your wp.org tags. You rank #6 and #20 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 1.7K · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #18,200 to #19,000, alongside the other plugins at 70+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
3
releases in the last 12 months
3mo ago
latest release · v1.3.7 · 6 Aug 2026
12
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “70+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 4 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 32% of the way through.
At the current install trend, crossing 80+ in roughly 141 days.
Install history since 23 Nov 2020
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ UmbrellaWeb6.8y ago
This is a great addition to gravity forms. Well done dev team. Knowing which forms have submission failures can help greatly to ensure your forms are working correctly. Love how it works. Would have give it 5* if not for some minor (essential) item missing. Multiple failure submissions are now logged and there is no way to remove them from the DB which can lead to a bloated DB. Yes you can change the threshold but when you find multiple bots or genuine failed submissions come through it quickly bloats the DB. Good thing its uses INNODB as its structure. Having a simple select and delete options is definitely essential in my opinion. Also combine with that filtering i.e. by IP address (same IPs) you can quickly see which IP addresses failed submissions come from, identify them and blacklist them. Currently very cumbersome to identify the same IP etc. Hope the developers can update this awesome plugin with those 2 features 🙂
Read on wp.org ↗
Security history
via Wordfence IntelligenceThe 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (1.3.7). Sites still on an older version should update.
- 2025-04-10 CVE-2025-32670 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.3.5 Patched in 1.3.6
Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.
CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
4 of 8 pass · checked 2 Nov 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Track failed form submissions and get notified when they reach a customisable threshold. Requires Gravity F..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 5 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 5 of 5 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Gravity Forms.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 228 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text Only 1 of 4 tags appear in the text ("failed submissions", "logging", "validation" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-07-11 60+ → 70+ up after 85 days in tier
- 2026-04-17 70+ → 60+ down after 51 days in tier
- 2026-02-25 60+ → 70+ up after 80 days in tier
- 2025-12-07 70+ → 60+ down after 44 days in tier
- 2025-10-24 80+ → 70+ down after 288 days in tier
- 2025-01-09 70+ → 80+ up after 20 days in tier
- 2024-12-20 80+ → 70+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2024-12-15 90+ → 80+ down after 9 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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